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Gulgowski, Piotr; Blaszczak, Joanna – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2020
The number meaning of grammatically plural nouns is to some extent context sensitive. In negative sentences, plural nouns typically receive an inclusive reading referring to any number of individuals (one or many). This contrasts with their more frequent exclusive reading referring to a group of two or more individuals. The present study…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Nouns, Polish, Psycholinguistics
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Wallentin, Mikkel; Rocca, Roberta; Stroustrup, Sofia – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2019
We investigated biases in the organization of imagery by asking participants to make stick-figure drawings of sentences containing a man, a woman and a transitive action (e.g. "she kisses that guy"). Previous findings show that prominent features of meaning and sentence structure are placed to the left in drawings, according to reading…
Descriptors: Grammar, Freehand Drawing, Sentences, Sex
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Leonetti, Manuel – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2018
This paper argues against the assumption that Spanish--and more generally Romance--imperfective past (IMP) is an intrinsically anaphoric tense. It is a widely accepted view that IMP requires a temporal discourse antecedent to be licensed. My aim is to show that such requirement is not actually in force when IMP combines with a stative/atelic…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Usage, Spanish, Sentence Structure
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Noll, Jane; Lowry, Mark; Bryant, Judith – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2018
An epicene pronoun is a gender-neutral singular pronoun used in sentences when the gender of the subject is unknown or unspecified. In English, "he" and "they" are commonly-used epicene pronouns. Until recently, "he" has been widely accepted as being grammatically correct. However, many have argued that he is sexist…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Form Classes (Languages), Sentence Structure, Gender Differences
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Kizach, Johannes; Christensen, Ken Ramshøj; Weed, Ethan – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2016
The so-called depth charge sentences (e.g., "no head injury is too trivial to be ignored") were investigated in a comprehension experiment measuring both whether participants understood the stimuli and how certain they were of their interpretation. The experiment revealed that three factors influence the difficulty of depth charge type…
Descriptors: Sentences, Sentence Structure, Reading Comprehension, Experiments
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Frazier, Lyn – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2015
Native speakers of English regularly hear sentences without overt subjects. Nevertheless, they maintain a [[superscript -]pro] grammar that requires sentences to have an overt subject. It is proposed that listeners of English recognize that speakers reduce predictable material and thus attribute null subjects to this process, rather than changing…
Descriptors: English, Psycholinguistics, Sentence Structure, Grammar
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Liu, Chin-Ting Jimbo; Lee, Hsiu-Fen Hélène – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2014
This study intends to shed light on the inconclusive argument pertaining to children's acquisition of logical form (LF) operation. Specifically, we examined children's interpretations of sentences with the ambiguous modal verb "yinggai" "should," like "Xiaohua yinggai shangchuang shuijiao le", whose meanings…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Children, Learning Processes, Verbs
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Gayraud, Frederique; Martinie, Bruno – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2008
Our goal is to establish a link between the time needed to plan a sentence containing an embedded clause and the structure of this sentence. Contrary to a traditional monolithic conception of subordination, three types of embeddings were considered, depending on their degree of syntactic integration: subcategorized, modifier and pseudo-embedded…
Descriptors: Sentences, Syntax, Form Classes (Languages), Prediction
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Tamaoka, Katsuo; Sakai, Hiromu; Kawahara, Jun-ichiro; Miyaoka, Yayoi; Lim, Hyunjung; Koizumi, Masatoshi – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2005
The present study investigated scrambling effects on the processing of Japanese sentences and priority information used among thematic roles, case particles and grammatical functions. Reaction times for correct sentence decisions were significantly prolonged for scrambled active sentences with transitive verbs in the first experiment and with…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Sentence Structure, Verbs, Grammar